Poetry Friday: Tu Fu’s “South Wind”, Trans. by Kenneth Rexroth
“South Wind”
by Tu Fu, trans. Kenneth Rexroth, collected in A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
The days grow long, the mountains
Beautiful. The south wind blows
Over blossoming meadows.
Newly arrived swallows dart
Over the streaming marshes.
Ducks in pairs drowse on the warm sand.
Balloons linger through a swift sunrise.
Amdijefri
March 9, 2007